I saw this advertised in Gumtree. Interesting set-up.
If you wish to buy this bike contact g.hincapie@asda-bso.com
Fell out of the gumtree
Fri, Sep 24, 2010 09:00
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Rendel Harris 3 hours ago
@bikeman01 Is that supposed to be funny? He's a black person so he must have come from Somalia and not have driven on roads before? Road.cc has remained, thankfully, almost completely free of the sort of moronic "just bants" racism that pollutes virtually every other online platform, can we keep it that way please?
aramando 8 hours ago
@the infamous grouse I think the thing you're missing in all of this is that a robust defence is a requirement of securing a conviction in a legal system that aims to prevent false prosecutions as much as possible. Without defence counsel doing their jobs a conviction wouldn't be worth anything and we wouldn't be able to sit here confident that Richardson is a murderer asking how anyone could defend him in the first place.
mdavidford 9 hours ago
Presumably because the brighter mode is using twice as much power.
antigee 9 hours ago
"The council’s approval came after years of delays and debate concerning the lay-out of the shared route, due to heritage-based concerns...." Looks at picture showing part of park allocated to car parking and scratches head over heritage concerns As to pedestrian complaints I tend to classify pedestrians into two groups: People who genuinely walk to destinations and people who have temporarily had to get out of a vehicle
Velo-drone 10 hours ago
Meanwhile life-threatening driving has been officially decriminalised in Derbyshire. Times has been strangely silent on that one. Wonder why?
Velo-drone 10 hours ago
@Backladder I'm going to take a wild guess that this offence has not been enforced anywhere in the last five years. But also ... if there's a designated "play street" where motor vehicles aren't allowed, why the heck is the penalty only two points anyway!?
Velo-drone 10 hours ago
@wtjs Every - and I mean EVERY - close pass is a deliberate active choice to prioritise driver convenience over the life of a another human being. Don't want to prosecute them? Sure. Offer them a driver improvement course, or points and a fine. You'll find out soon enough if it's actually a "moment" of poor judgement, because if it isn't then they'll be back up again. Let them off, and you'll never know - because every time will just be another "moment".
smallbeer 11 hours ago
I have to assume the reviewer's correct when he says they're red, but to me they look orange. Also: "Battery life is quoted at 7.5hrs/15hrs on steady" could do with some clarification. Why is one figure twice as high as the other?
wtjs 11 hours ago
There is no excuse for this There is: I want to drive onto a cycle lane, and I'll always get away with it
chrisonabike 12 hours ago
@rgriffith7 I'm not sure the wisdom of basing your safety analysis on what happens *after* the bad thing has occurred. I'd be more interested in that not happening in the first place ... but I guess it's a fair proxy for general attitude to driver behaviour / cyclists. Anyway - if you're of an adventurous disposition and can avoid obvious invitations to an altercation (basically any time a motorist takes the time to insult you, or worse) stats show that on average you can enjoy several lifetimes of cycling in the UK without serious injury... Lifelong UK transport cyclist here, still alive at time of posting...
10 thoughts on “Fell out of the gumtree”
Gotta love that aero brake
Gotta love that aero brake mount – not sure how it would benefit a bike such as this but hey, each to their own!
Thank’s how all the kids roll
Thank’s how all the kids roll round here. It give the bike awesome handling.
Don’t often see a bike on
Don’t often see a bike on Gumtree with both wheels. Although I’m sure there’s a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation for the ones that have the front wheel missing 😕
didn’t we see that at
didn’t we see that at Eurobike?
I see this so many times,
I see this so many times, commuting… forks back to front, genius! I even stopped one lady to explain, wish I hadn’t!
Flo K
Flo K wrote:I see this so
Yep, done the same to a father and son once as the kid’s bike looked like a crash waiting to happen. The father gave me a mouthful of abuse for being nosey. I am guessing he built it up for his son and ‘knew what he was doing!’
Do those forks make Endos
Do those forks make Endos easier to pull off?
track geometries, hmm… like
track geometries, hmm… like training bra for your first fixie. I would imagine.. ah hem..
We see kids turning up for
We see kids turning up for Bikeability training with bikes built like this all the time.
yeah we do indeed…the usual
yeah we do indeed…the usual “but I got it brand new from asda, tesco, jjb, halford etc etc…and I/They built it up properly, you dont have an f-ing clue” come along with it when we say, erm, this bike is going to cause your child to get injured.